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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  to know the majority of people at the school. Size is an implicit ... if MIT had to go the way of large state schools and begin having ... situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  -long commitment a week, yay   Sloan Business Club — one of the more ... that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... grain of salt...my effort level under P/NR is admittedly quite low"]c o n

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  : Orientation The overlapping begins. Week 3 onwards: School and beyond! Images not for the faint-hearted. Spiraling out of control. - Now is ... post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  universities and medical schools offer biomedical engineering (or bioengineering ... major in Biological Engineering: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty yesterday approved a new course of study for undergraduates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student-driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... family-owned businesses and trendy food destinations in general. I mean

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  local schools – Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), Harvard ... Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  sure I posted something before the rest of this week gets crazy/busy. MIT ... Analysis of Algorithms) exam this past Thursday. Once it was over, my brain just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  vague memories of him making and offering me cookies but I am rude and I ... bushes outside. Moreso than the interview itself or the rest of that busy ... ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  project -- some of my friends at other schools have had "research positions ... chemicals and worth-more-than-your-life machines.) A grad school interview is ... with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  science programs and a history of sending students to big schools. In group ... sophomore year of high school in a pretty competitive place. It had a few Ivy ... and the effort to go through another four years of schooling deserves

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  . In High School, I had an English teacher (who remains one of my ... through some possible courses of action, and settled on: moping. First, I moped alone. During this period, I decided that the responsible course of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... you don’t know what business casual means, much less how to find a job ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  this is that not receiving an offer of admission does not make an ... admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked ... particularly conscious of the magnitude of this selection process, given the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... strategy. I presented her with my list of colleges, mostly state schools with a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to decisions.mit.edu. 18,357 students applied to the MIT Class of 2018. As of today, and inclusive of Early Action, we have offered ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2018 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business ... regrettably true. Medical schools pay a lot of attention to your GPA and MIT ... Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  graduate school or working elsewhere. Do I miss the proximity of undergrad ... This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT, the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010